st: RE: Graph truncates axis labels and titles

You may not like this answer, but the best way
to deal with this is to upgrade to Stata 8.
You are quite right. Even by Stata 7 the -graph-
code was in several respects very dated. Some
of it went back to a time when value labels
were at most 8 characters long, and thus
axis labels were truncated. In essence,
StataCorp didn't fix this because they were
working on a total overhaul, which is now in
Stata 8.
In the case of axis titles, my guess is just
that there just not enough space to show
your variable label, but I am still surprised
by that. Perhaps you could give a concrete
example.
Nick
n.j.cox@durham.ac.uk
Jonas Dahlqvist
> When doing basic histograms with the graph command, STATA
> automatically uses value and variable labels for the axis
> labels and titles. However in the graphs, the labels and
> titles are often truncated. I have searched (plenty) for
> information on this and but have not found any "knob" to turn
> to make STATA generate longer axis labels and titles from the
> variable labels and value labels. As it stands, I cannot even
> get STATA to generate axis labels long enough to accommodate
> basic Likert-type statements. So my question is, are there
> any suitable knobs to turn? I use Stata 7 Intercooled.
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